Article Guidelines

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Welcome to the article guideline section of Bodybuilding Nation. We are a large community of passionate fitness enthusiasts dedicated to helping others reach their goals. As such, we extend the offer to select individuals who we feel have made an impact on our site to write articles and content for us. The offer is completely optional and we never hold it against you if you decline however, it is a great way to gain exposure to your brand, yourself, or your business. It is also a good way to accumulate votes and extend your reach on the site itself.

We recommend that anyone who has been extended the invitation of writing for us read over these guidelines to increase the likelihood of their article being accepted. We are particular about the articles that get through moderation and only allow the best of the best on the site.

Becoming A Writer For Bodybuilding Nation

By default, anyone who reaches an overall vote count of +500 or more AND is 18 years of age or older is extended the offer of writing for us. Votes are accumulated by participating in our forum and helping others throughout the site. To read more on gaining votes visit this page. While becoming a writer is largely dependent on our voting system, we may also extend or remove the offer to anyone at our discretion.

You will receive a notification if we extend you the offer and you will also see an "articles" section appear in your navigation.

By clicking on the notification or articles tab you will be brought to a page where you must either accept or decline the invitation to write articles for us. If you accept, there is no minimum amount of articles you need to write. This means you are free to publish articles as you wish without the fear of your ability to post getting shut down due to lack of activity. However, if you decline you will not be able to go back and accept the invitation later. You will need to contact us for another invitation which may or may not be issued at our discretion.

Writing An Article For Us

Once you accept the invitation, you are free to add up to 20 articles a month at any time. Whether or not these articles are accepted on the site will be up to our editor. We manually review all articles to ensure only the ones that will be useful and informative to our users are put live on the site.

Articles should be industry related, on topic and informational, not self promoting. Submitted articles should not be news related but guides, how-to's, and advice that will help those who are interested in the topic. Reviews of products are also discouraged and will most likely not be accepted. Successful articles are typically well researched, well read and full of concrete facts.

Article Minimum Requirements

• Articles must have a minimum of 800 words.
• Articles must have a chosen category and be on topic to said category.
• Articles must be unique to both the site and elsewhere.

What's Not Allowed

• Links to off topic, illegal, or pornographic material.
• Self promoting without significant relevance to the article.
• Blatantly incorrect or off topic information to the category being posted in.
• Articles with grammatical errors.
• Duplicate articles that are either copied from elsewhere or the same topic wise as another article on the site.

Article Acceptance Process

After you are done with your article, it is recommended that you submit it for review by our editors. Our editors will either accept the article if we feel it is well read enough to appear on our site or come back with suggestions. You may dispute our recommended changes or make them and resubmit the article for review. Once an agreed upon article is established, we will add the article publicly to the site.

You have the option to post articles anonymously however, it is not recommended that you do so as upvotes on anonymous articles that you wrote will not contribute to your overall vote score.

Depending on the quality of your article we may add on topic images to your article with your permission. We may also discontinue an article and request changes based on community suggestions and the information provided in the article. You may take your article off the site or make changes at any time to your article. Changes made to the article will need to be approved before being set live on the site.

Our articles use a point system and while we do our best to only post articles we perceive to be well received by the Bodybuilding Nation community, sometimes articles may not be very popular with our users. Articles that reach a vote score of -20 are automatically revoked from the site.

Disclaimer

Any information, profiles, data, text, links, articles, software, photographs, graphics, video, music, sound, messages, or other materials that a User uploads, publishes or displays on the Sites or in connection with the Services, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, shall be referred to herein as "User Generated Content." Users assume the following obligations with User Generated Content:

• Users assume legal responsibility for all User Generated Content.
• Users agree that no copyright, trademark, trade secret, publicity or privacy rights, or other intellectual property rights are being violated by your posting, transmission or sharing of any User Generated Content via the Sites or Services.
• Users agree not to post, transmit, or share User Generated Content on the Sites or Services that User does not have permission to post, transmit or share.

For more information on our policies of user generated content please visit our terms and conditions page.